Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Eugene Victor Debs, 71, five times Socialist candidate for President; at the Lindlahr Sanitarium, Elmhurst, Ill., of kidney disease and myocarditis, following a nervous breakdown...
...Americans is different. For one thing, it dives into the melting pot business without fetching up an Irish-Jewish wedding. For another, it keeps itself, in this nervous age, as innocent of agitated movement as a stuffed porpoise. The entire second act, shunted in bodily from the vaudeville circuit, consists of a classroom scene, leaves the slight plot snoozing at practically the same complication it had reached when the curtain crept down on Act I. The audience was quick to appreciate that vaudeville interpolation. More than a series of dialect jokes is the picture of Life's graduating seniors...
...party around the course. Frantic, Dr. Brown carried his son to the street, was heartened by the offer of transportation from Building Commissioner John W. Moore, driving by at the moment. Mr. Moore drove a few minutes, stopped the car, got out, said: "I'm too nervous to drive. Take the car and go on." From the curb, he watched Dr. Brown drive off, collapsed, died...
...Collins of Manhattan, after the experience of a general practice, turned neurologist. He has been asked to unravel the nervous, sexual and emotional snarls of thousands of well-to-do women and some men. Of all U. S. parishes, his is perhaps the most conducive not only to hysteria and hypochondria, especially among its most numerous non-native members, but also to genuine disorders of body, mind and soul. Doctors in less complex communities may well envy the scope for observation that has been his. the diversity and clearcutness of his cases. Proportionately, he has a more rigid test...
...Nervous Wreck (Harrison Ford). Owen Davis' play, turned into slapstick, presents the usual "Christie Comedy" stuff: Ches Conklin, Mack Swain. Phyl Haver, smashed dishes, broken pates, all whirling around in clownish jamboree, affording some measure of Punch and Judy merriment...